Whenever I’m bored, anxious, overwhelmed or feeling ugly and lame I look to an outside source to “fix it.”
To distract me really. Sometimes that means a shopping spree, sometimes it means junk food, sometimes it means buying another online course or another book. New things are sexy, you just can’t deny it and I’m not trying to!
But it’s easy to forget I actually have four online courses from amazing people that I haven’t done yet. I have about 5 books that should be great that I haven’t opened yet. I have a bag of boom chicka pop in my cupboard already, do I really need to haul my ass to the grocery store to get skinny pop instead? (Actually yes, because it tastes so much better)
I pin photos of houses with cold plunges and sexy custom-made saunas in their backyards— I forget that I have a gym membership with a pool and a steam room, and I’m guessing there’s a freezing cold setting on the showers too.
I started a tik tok series (I think my username is @chloebrud if you wanna follow, but not confirmed) where I shopped my own closet to see if I could style *every piece* and before I forgot about the project completely I was loving it, getting so many new outfit ideas and wearing what I already own. And I didn’t even make myself go on a shopping break or anything, but I found myself spending less on new clothes and feeling like I had an overwhelming amount of options of things to wear instead of “nothing”
Up next I might start drinking some of the tea sitting in my cupboard! 17 flavors sitting unsipped! The little heating pad my sister bought me to keep my morning coffee hot all morning? It’s getting used tomorrow.
My challenge to you today is to take inventory of what you already own and have access to that you’re forgetting about. I don’t have a catchy tag line today, just do it and let me know how it goes.
Xx chloe
P.S. I literally wrote this in the gym sauna
It’s funny how when you order something you anticipate it’s arrival and can’t wait until it’s here and then once it actually is here, it’s already lost it’s excitement. Sometimes I don’t wear new things for a while, or set things aside that I ordered and haven’t used. But I love the reminder to use what we have and stop thinking new stuff is going to make us feel better about ourselves. 💗
I do this all the time - when I feel low I tell myself I need a treat whether that's shopping for clothes, food, books, make up, really anything 'new' for me to mull and fascinate over to distract myself. I've started to instead declutter my house and tackle it as a project that makes things feel "new." A "new" guest room (when really it's just not full of complete junk) or a "new" garden (when really I'm just weeding it and making it look fresh again). It also stops me from spending all the time!